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This manual consists of a handbook prepared to provide a solid introduction to negotiating or working on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) for those with little or no background, as well as a key reference tool for experienced negotiators. The document provides a reference tool that will enhance the capacity of those working on MEAs and involved in international negotiations.

This manual is designed to provide practical guidance and capacity building for climate change adaptation and mitigation practices in the tourism sector. In fact, the tourism industry has a key role to play in confronting the challenges of climate change. The spectacular growth of tourism provides both a challenge and an opportunity. The tourist community itself has responded to this challenge over the past few years and visibly stepped up its response to climate change.

This short story is aimed at sensitizing children to the importance of forest conservation and the promotion of tree planting. It is part of the Tunza Environmental Series for Children sponsored by UNEP that seeks to inspire caring for the Earth through creative literature that sparks the interest and awareness of children, their parents and teachers.

This activity report covers the achievements of the World food Program in 2006. It includes work undertaken in Kashmir after the Earthquake and in the Middle East during the Gaza crisis.

This analytical report covers the work that the WFP does in relation to climate change. This includes awareness raising as well as preparing for disasters. WFP is a frontline implementing agency that deals with complex humanitarian crises and has for decades fought hunger and destitution brought about by droughts; floods; degradation of natural resources; population pressure in fragile areas; weak physical, institutional and human capacity; and political conflict.

This activity report covers the World Food Programme (WFP) work to assist communities hit by disasters and to help them adapt to a changing climate. It addresses diverse areas such as food security, water conservation, and land management.

This press release summarises the conclusions reached by a group of key UN and non-UN aid agencies attending climate change talks in Bonn about the humanitarian impacts of climate change. The group called for the impact to be addressed in the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen.

This video presents a statement pronounced by WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran during a presentation of the MERET project at the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The Director discusses the successful results in terms of climate change adaptation obtained through MERET in Ethiopia. Ethiopian Prime Minister Zenawi Meles publicly thanked WFP for its key role in making the project work.

This activity report contains remarks by WFP Executive Director at a CEB Consultation on climate change. He outlines the challenge for the World Food Programme to mitigate climate related risks for the world’s most vulnerable people and gives examples of adaptation measures the WFP is supporting in developing countries.

This video introduces the work of the WFP and its link with climate change. WFP sees the human face of climate change every day. For more than 40 years, WFP has been helping people whose lives depend on the vagaries of the weather. For these people, the accelerated changes in climate in recent decades have spelt misery, loss and more hunger.

This fact sheet summarizes key findings highlighting the linkages between climate, hunger and malnutrition. The document has been published in advance of an in-depth report by the WFP on this issue.

This photo gallery exposes how extremely vulnerable Bangladesh is to natural disasters, with cyclones and flooding occurring regularly. Flooding means that families have to flee for drier ground at least once a year. Local people are adjusting their farming system, but still necessitate the help of the Vulnerable Group Development programme.

This activity report analyses the financial mechanisms available to both developed and developing countries, and their use, to transfer risks of weather related disasters. In developed countries, livelihood and asset losses sustained in natural disasters are often covered by international insurance, capital markets, or simply by government budgets that act as contingency funds. These ‘weather risk transfer tools’ protect livelihoods by facilitating timely support and thereby limiting the economic damage of disasters. Many developing countries are particularly exposed to natural disaster risk, but do not make use of these risk transfer instruments. WFP tries to promote their use because the consequences of climate change will cause the exposure to natural disasters and their severity to increase.

This video shows an interview with Adil Najam, a leading expert on issues related to developing country environmental policy, on climate change and food security. Mr. Najam is currently Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and of Geography & Environment, both at Boston University.

This statement talks about the increasing number of climate and weather-related disasters and the impact that these may have on vulnerable people. While the number of hungry people has reached 1 billion, the number of people at risk from climate and weather-related disasters has increased to 2.6 billion.

This analytical report reviews global studies of the expected effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of necessary actions to address the challenge, especially focusing on food access.

This analytical report addresses the work of the WFP in its relation to climate change. Indeed, there are more than one billion hungry people in the world – and climatic changes threaten to significantly increase the number of people at risk of hunger and undernutrition.

This fact sheet explains that responding to increased hunger and undernutrition caused by climatic changes will be a key pillar of WFP’s work in the 21st century – providing emergency relief when disasters strike, helping devastated families recover and rebuild, and assisting vulnerable communities adapt to more difficult and uncertain times.

This fact sheet brings together a number of findings from UN experts, demonstrating the impacts of climate change on food security. It contains statements from the IPCC and several leading humanitarian and relief organizations.

This fact sheet looks at the fact that climate change threatens to significantly increase hunger and malnutrition worldwide. Indeed, many of the communities that will bear the most serious consequences are already vulnerable and suffering from hunger, undernutrition and food insecurity.